#lifestuff — Public Fediverse posts

Sigh, I'm struggling with a Thing I don't like in my life, friends, but I can't change it. Well. Not immediately (unless I'm willing to face some really unpleasant consequences, and I'm not).

I can work towards changing said Thing but that will take time, and meanwhile, I need to be OK with the status quo. This is unsettling and annoying because I've really reached the end of my tether with the Thing.

I need to focus on radical acceptance/gratitude/what good I have in my life over the next few days. Currently I'm journalling, writing lists of 'things I love and are good in life', spending time with my favourite folk, planning some gardening...

any other tips will be greatly appreciated. This is taking up a lot of energy and it's demoralising and sad.

#advice #LifeStuff #annoying #sad

Welp, I guess this microwave has had it. // #IsItSalvageable 🤔 // #random #LifeStuff

okay, to-do list check!
✓ eat breakfast
- start laundry
- move my bedside table back to the bedroom and put everything back on it
✓ put the cedar chest at the end of my bed
✓ wipe down cedar chest, inside and out
- find homes for: ottoman, brass container, two green glass chickens, candy dish, CD player, some large paintings
- put woolens in cedar chest!
- collapse, probably

also, @ninsiana0 wants to go to Trader Joe's, so I probably won't get all of this done today ... okay, I need to focus on laundry and the bedside table ... and charging my phone 😁 no more updates for a bit!

#LifeStuff

this thing being in front of my bed is going to take some getting used to lol I keep barking my calves (the back part, not the shins) when I try to flop onto my bed 🤣

I do kinda want to try to get it refinished, with ideally a stain rather than paint, so we can see the wood grain

also, in the second photo there's two long nails poking through the bottom, bent so they won't stab me, at least. not really visible, in the top left corner: a screw sticking out of the bottom, just poking up, ready to stab my hand

so, even if I can't get it refinished anytime soon, I do need to come up with a diy fix for at minimum the screw

but AAAHHHHH I'm so excited about this piece!

#LifeStuff

my mother's mother's mother, Mary Green, painted this. at first I thought it was a sparrow (one of my favorite birds), but apparently it's a tufted titmouse, which is still a good bird 😅

#LifeStuff #art #painting

good morning, y'all! I've got a bunch of stuff to move around today, to get my apartment back to normal, so the plan is:

- eat breakfast
- start laundry¹
- move my bedside table back to the bedroom² and put everything back on it
- put the cedar chest at the end of my bed where it belongs and try to find homes for all the stuff that's on top of it³
- put woolens in cedar chest!
- collapse, probably

#LifeStuff

¹ found a bunch of warm clothes (including some woolens) I'd forgotten about in a bin under the bed
² it was moved to the kitchen to give me more room to move boxes
³ other stuff from my parents: an ottoman, some art, a fancy CD player

just want to brag about:

✓ laundry folded and put away
✓ clean bedding on the bed
✓ Link is back for more cuddle time

#LifeStuff

✓ stay home until cannabis is delivered
✓ go to The People's Coffee

me: ooh, can I get a pumpkin spice chai?
The People's Barista: hot or iced?
me: oh, well you can't have an iced pumpkin spice thing
TPB: yeah, we could do that
TPB: *starts to explain the process for prepping the pumpkin spice blend for iced drinks*
me: no no no, I meant, like, aesthetically
TPB: oh, yeah, the vibes would off
me: let's do hot

#LifeStuff

eyyy, so far I've done:

✓ eat breakfast
✓ have therapy
✓ Blanket Time™ with Midna
✓ get dressed
- stay home until cannabis is delivered
- go to The People's Coffee to work on #writing stuff/character sketches for my #monsterhearts2 one-shot this weekend

I've actually done a little bit of character work for the game: writing lists of simple, divisive motivations for side characters. I still want to: finish the list of names, come up with scene location ideas, and maybe flesh out one or two scene ideas in case my players are shy about starting the game

Monsterhearts is like a nice halfway point between, say, D&D and the DMless games¹ I've been facilitating, in terms of "DM" prep. like, I don't *need* to prep for hours before running a game, BUT, I find having, like, lists of names really helpful

#LifeStuff #ttrpg

¹ Dream Askew/Dream Apart, also by Avery Adler, and Sleepaway (by Jay Dragon) which uses the same engine as Dream Askew

good morning (ish)

I'm gonna try resurrecting my #LifeStuff hashtag. for newer followers, I use it as an attempt to give myself accountability to get things done, and it usually involves a checklist of things I want to get done, like:

- eat breakfast
✓ have therapy
✓ Blanket Time™ with Midna
- get dressed
- don't forget I'm getting cannabis delivered
- go to The People's Coffee for a couple hours before work to work on #writing stuff/character sketches for an #RPG I'm running this weekend (#Monsterhearts by Avery Alder)

I read once that you should include things you've already done in to-do lists for a dopamine hit ... I don't know how well it works, but I like doing it, so 🤷🏻

anyway, therapy was good, Blanket Time™ was had, so I guess I should put on clothes and eat some cereal while I wait for the cannabis delivery

#mentalHealth

today was kinda rough ... I got some errands done and then had what I thought was gonna be a 20 minute doctor appointment that lasted an hour and a half (and was emotionally draining) and by the time it was done and my ride arrived, I had less than an hour to get home, eat something and start work

so I called out of work, had dinner with a friend (and their cute dog!) and now I'm home watching Star Trek

#LifeStuff

HVAC update: I HAVE AC AGAIN!!! also, there's still a technician in my apartment. I'm not really clear on what's left to do, since I have cool air coming out of my vents, but I'm sure it's important

however, this makes it awkward for my date night with @comicsbyxan ... we ordered some food and instead of watching a TV show and sitting on the couch, we're kinda perched awkwardly on the bed, eating in complete silence 😅😅😅

hopefully he'll be finished soon 🤷🏻

#LifeStuff

well, they took the furnace with them when they left, Xan came over to offer emotional support and but me dinner AND my supervisor gave me the night off so ... uh, I guess I'm okay for now?

#LifeStuff

the worst thing about ppl being in and out of your studio apartment most of the day trying to fix something that may not be fixable is that it's extremely difficult to find the privacy for a good cry

there's the bathroom, of course, but without the AC, it's not very comfortable to lock oneself away in

I'm feeling overwhelmed to the point of panic attack but at least my supervisor seems understanding about my inability to start work on time

#LifeStuff #mentalHealth

so apparently there's another apartment in my building with HVAC issues, and they were supposed to come to my apartment first, but there was a misunderstanding or something, and they're at the other place

😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

it's fine, I just wish I could have woken up at a reasonable time 🙃🥲

anyway, now I'm going to a) continue listening to Clockwork Boys by T Kingfisher and b) fight monsters in Hyrule until the HVAC folks show up 🤷🏻

#LifeStuff #audiobooks #audiobookstodon #videogames @bookstodon

good morning! I slept through my first alarm, waking at around 8:20. I got dressed, started breakfast, realized I had a migraine and took a migraine med, and texted the office around 8:45, asking about the HVAC ppl, who (if you missed yesterday's update) were supposed to be here at 8am

a little after 9, the building's normal maintenance guy rang my doorbell to tell me that the HVAC folks had just arrived and would be here shortly. just after that, the office human texted me the same info

at 9:45 (just now), the maintenance guy rang my doorbell again to check on the HVAC folks, who, uh, aren't here yet 🙃

I'm so tired

#LifeStuff

UPDATE: I texted the office human as soon as the HVAC people left¹, (politely) asking "what the fuck", and I JUST² got a response, saying that they have to do a full HVAC workup³ so they'll be back tomorrow, at EIGHT IN THE MORNING

for those who don't know this about me: I work evenings. I get done with work and then I watch a few episodes of Star Trek and the very earliest I usually go to bed is 2am

I literally can't remember the last time I was awake before 9:30 (aside from possibly the vacation to California, and there were time zones involved) ... maybe my top surgery⁴, if it was scheduled in the morning?

so, I'm very glad she responded to my text, fucking hell

#LifeStuff

¹ at 4:45pm
² at 9pm
³ which I guess is better than replacing the thing entirely??? but that's not what the first maintenance person told me so 🙃🙃🙃 idk
⁴ my top surgery was a YEAR and a HALF ago, fyi

I cut my leg on a piece of broken mirror (inside my apartment, it was my mirror) and got five stitches!

also my A/C stopped working Sunday night and the maintenance person is supposed to arrive any minute to replace it

it's been a great couple days!

#LifeStuff

"midday" update:
- finish laundry (folding the last of it now)
✓ restock cat food cans
✓ open all recent packages, break down boxes
✓ finally finish putting my Hanukkah decorations away so I can stow the box somewhere (ditto my new seder plate)
✓ gather recyclables, start taking them out, also grab my mail/packages from the mailbox

#LifeStuff #ADHD @adhd

"midday" update:
✓ make bed
✓ breakfast
- continue laundry (ALMOST DONE, just one more dryer load to wait for and then fold and put away)
- restock cat food cans (from the pantry/chewy.com packages to the kitchen)
- open all recent packages, break down boxes
✓ finally finish putting my Hanukkah decorations away so I can stow the box somewhere (ditto my new seder plate)
- gather recyclables, start taking them out, also grab my mail/packages from the mailbox

my friend came over and I'm folding laundry while we talk about how gender is fake

#LifeStuff #ADHD @adhd

morning, Mastodonians 💜 I'm tired as shit 🙃 but I've got RITALIN again for the first time in months, and I really need to get some shit done, so it's time for a #LifeStuff post!

for those who aren't familiar, it's a list of things I want to get done today, and then I post at least once more, updating my progress

so:
✓ make bed
- breakfast
- continue laundry (fold and put away dry stuff, start the next batch)
- restock cat food cans (from the pantry/chewy.com packages to the kitchen)
- open all recent packages, break down boxes
- finally finish putting my Hanukkah decorations away so I can stow the box somewhere (ditto my new seder plate)
- gather recyclables, start taking them out, also grab my mail/packages from the mailbox

okay, I'm going to end here and make some breakfast. there's more stuff, but I'll figure it out after I've done some of this. thanks for being a kind of virtual body double, friends 💜

#ADHD @adhd

Trying to wrap up this baking order before my workout. Then shower and stream. Never a dull moment at times 😄

#baking #exercise #stream #lifestuff

today's been a very busy day, and it started EXTREMELY too early; I had hand and then back physical therapy appointments, back to back. the first one was scheduled for before I normally wake up 🙃

then I had video appointments; my psychiatrist, to talk about meds, and then therapy

I have three hours until work (which I do not want to do). I want to eat something substantial bc I haven't really had time to eat much today (granola bar before PT and toast with jam after), and I want to finish listening to In An Absent Dream to get out of my head for a bit

then I guess I'll go to work 🙃🙃🙃

#LifeStuff

good morning friends 💜 I think I woke up with a #migraine 🙃

today's plans:
- breakfast
- get dressed
- clean the bathroom for 5-15 minutes*
- bug the apartment manager about our recycling bins**
- hang dry laundry

... that might be it. I want to do more, but I'm exhausted and my head/right eye is killing me. I'll update later

#LifeStuff #ChronicPain #chronicFatigue

*however long I can stand before the chronic pain makes it impossible
**the bins have gone out and come back still full, bc there's hella construction on our road, so I feel bad about bugging her, but also I have so much recycling in my tiny apartment

good morning friends 😊 I've been dealing with anxiety and depression for a bit, but I appear to exist now 😅

first, my plans for today:
✓ get dressed
- breakfast
- laundry
- litter box
- dishes
- #HebrewStudy

last week, during my body double chores thing with J, I went through my linen closet and threw out some things, but also found a bunch of things to donate (mainly cat things that I'm not currently using, but also a STACK of blankets), and it just feels so freeing, knowing they're all gone ... it makes me want to do more

I want to go through my three giant bins of fabric and all my yarn next; I can either straight up donate the materials, or I can use them to make things for donation to shelters ... depends how much I just want things gone

anyway, past time for breakfast; I'm starving

#LifeStuff

welp ... I did The Call, but now I'm waiting for a call back 🙃🙃🙃 so I'm still anxious, but I don't think I'm going to throw up anymore?

so, today's agenda is:
✓ breakfast
- clean clothes
- make the bed with clean sheets
- wash my sheets
- #HebrewStudy
- afternoon tea

until I get the call back, I'm going to try to be gentle with myself. listen to favorite music or old podcast episodes that I love, etc

#LifeStuff #anxiety